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He Thought He Would Be Deported to Venezuela. Instead, Trump Sent Him to CECOT. ProPublica 18 July 2025
He Thought He Would Be Deported to Venezuela. Instead, Trump Sent Him to CECOT. video ProPublica 18 July 2025
José Manuel Ramos Bastidas entered the U.S. with an appointment with border officials made via the CBP One app, which the Biden administration used to try to bring order to the soaring numbers of migrants attempting to enter the country, but he was immediately detained.
An immigration officer and a judge determined he did not qualify for protection in the country.
For almost a year, he waited in detention to be sent back home to Venezuela.
In February 2025, when the Trump administration began a mass deportation campaign and news of the first immigrants being sent to a U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, started trickling in to detention centers, Ramos panicked and asked his wife, Roynerliz Rodríguez, to record a message, “Just in case something happens to me,” he said.
A month later, he called again.
More upbeat, he said U.S. authorities told him he would be sent back to Venezuela.
His family planned to bake him a cake and cook his favorite meal.
But Ramos never arrived.
Instead, he ended up being one of the more than 230 Venezuelans sent to the notorious prison in El Salvador known as CECOT on March 15.
In a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case investigation into where each of the men were in the U.S. immigration system, we found they were either in the middle of their cases, which normally should have protected them from deportation, or they had already been ordered deported and should have first been given the option to be sent back to a country they chose.
Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, defended sending the Venezuelans to CECOT.
“They may not have criminal records in the U.S., beyond breaking our laws to enter the country illegally,” she said in a statement, “but many of these illegal aliens are far from innocent.”
Ramos’ lawyers said in court records that U.S. authorities wrongly identified him as a gang member based on his tattoos and an “unsubstantiated” report from Panamanian officials.
Months later, his family questions whether he’s still alive.
They have not heard from him nor have they received official confirmation that he was sent to the Salvadoran prison beyond a list published by a news organization.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHBmbQCOYzQ
An Immigrant Family Moves Through Generational Trauma NPR 16 June 2021
An Immigrant Family Moves Through Generational Trauma Video Where We Come From NPR 16 June 2021
As a young girl growing up in Queens, N.Y., Colette Baptiste-Mombo said she felt largely insulated from the struggles of the civil rights movement playing out across much of the country in the 1960s.
Her mother, an immigrant with English and Somali roots, and her father, a Bronx-born Jamaican American, were looking for the best opportunities for their children.
But when her family moved into an all white neighborhood in the New Jersey suburbs in 1965, Colette and her family soon faced taunts, insults
and eventually an attack that would become a defining moment
in Colette's life. featuring stories from immigrant communities of color across generations in honor of Immigrant Heritage Month. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwyVo1wwpa8
The U.S. Is Outsourcing Asylum to Guatemala, Here's Why That's Dangerous NYT 13 March 2020
The U.S. Is Outsourcing Asylum to Guatemala, Here's Why That's Dangerous Video The Dispatch The New York Times 13 March 2020
Instead of a court hearing, the Trump administration is giving Central Americans a chance to seek asylum — in Guatemala. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKn7Zpum35A
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